02322cas a2200277 a 4500 AALejournalIMF011927 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781475504347 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Lopez-Espinosa, German. Systemic Risk and Asymmetric Responses in the Financial Industry / German Lopez-Espinosa, Antonio Rubia, Laura Valderrama, Antonio Moreno. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2012. 1 online resource (38 pages) IMF Working Papers <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students To date, an operational measure of systemic risk capturing non-linear tail comovement between system-wide and individual bank returns has not yet been developed. This paper proposes an extension of the so-called CoVaR measure that captures the asymmetric response of the banking system to positive and negative shocks to the market-valued balance sheets of individual banks. For the median of our sample of U.S. banks, the relative impact on the system of a fall in individual market value is sevenfold that of an increase. Moreover, the downward bias in systemic risk from ignoring this asymmetric pattern increases with bank size. The conditional tail comovement between the banking system and a top decile bank which is losing market value is 5.4 larger than the unconditional tail comovement versus only 2.2 for banks in the bottom decile. The asymmetric model also produces much better estimates and fitting, and thus improves the capacity to monitor systemic risk. Our results suggest that ignoring asymmetries in tail interdependence may lead to a severe underestimation of systemic risk in a downward market. Mode of access: Internet Moreno, Antonio. Rubia, Antonio. Valderrama, Laura. IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2012/152 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/2012/152/001.2012.issue-152-en.xml IMF e-Library